“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Last night was hell until I found something that worked - I was shocked how fast the poison was reversed. I crushed 8 Aspirin pills in a mortar & pestle and poured two cap fulls of white vinegar into the ground aspirin. Then I mixed it into a white paste. Wiping it onto the swollen wounds on the ankle and let it dried. Then put a compression bandage on it. Essentially I made a poor man's Poultice. Then drank three more Aspirin with diphenhydramine (Benadryl) with a little vodka & soda. I took the bandage off before going to bed an hour later- I kid you not in spite of all the pain yesterday - I slept well. This morning it was like it never happened. No swelling at all. The aspirin & vinegar appears to contain a acid that neutralizes the poison in your skin. I avoided two or three days of swelling.
I guess it was the highest dose of something similar that I don't have, Aspercream. those Aspirin were 325mg
What didn't work
CVS Bite & Sting medication
other pain killer killers
Baking Soda
Ice packs on the wound
What I did not try but has merit.
Applying a steroid cream
Putting a 1 percent hydrocortisone cream onto the sting site can help to reduce itching and swelling. This medication is available over the counter and should be applied three times a day.
Applying a paste to the sting
Make a paste by mixing water and meat tenderizer powder. This powder contains enzymes that can neutralize the yellow jacket's venom. As a result, pain and swelling will decrease. Do not apply this paste near a person's eye.
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
it was the vodka/benadryl cocktail that did the trick, everything else was a placebo.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Laudanum. That's all I'm sayin'.
Well as the OP was...How W.A.S.P & friends react to colors we wear......
At a garden party, in the Hamptons.... don't wear white after Labor Day...Your friends will look down their nose at you.
(Thought I would mention it, as it's up coming up soon)
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Righto. Bloody good reminder. A bit of thanks and all that old boy.
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Very tiny eyedroppers and tweezers.
Several year ago I got a call from CSX railroad about a wasp problem. The nest was in an abandoned pile of cross ties. It was a paper wasp nest that measured six feet wide and about three feet deep. I was wearing a crawl suit and two bee suits. I did not get stung, but it scared the bejesus out of me. I charged dearly for that job.
That sounds like something from a bad 1950s sci-fi. You'd expect a 10 foot two headed queen from a nuclear test site to be in the middle of that mess. Of course, some good looking chick would have to get knocked unconsciousness and you'd have to save her. So there is that. On the down side, she'd be wearing a pink poodle skirt and you'd be wearing a crawl suit and two bee suits.
A few summers ago I went into the forest to cut some dead falls for the winter. While setting up I heard a lot of loud tapping. I had set a bright red Styrofoam to-go cup six to eight feet away from a yellow jacket ground nest, and it was under attack. In less than twenty minutes the dog and I were being harassed a good fifty feet away. After swinging at them and wiping them off Maddie's thick fur I called the day a wash. I located the hive on the way out, and came back with gasoline late that night - no fire, just gas. The next day there were just a half dozen disoriented insects around the nest. The fight was out of them.
I'd received a dozen or so stings which weren't particularly painful - itchy though. The unexpected thing was that I had sort of an up high from the encounter which only added to the satisfaction of adding a fair amount of oak to the firewood reserve the next day.
There were a couple inches of them that managed to crawl through the sippy hole and drown in the coffee. Can't say the color had any anything to do with mobilizing the hive, but red stands out in the woods.
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